Elijah: carried up to heaven in a chariot of fire

He leaps out of nowhere, stands eye ball to eye ball with Ahab and defends the God-given identity of Israel.

He's Elijah, the Prophet who could both listen to the voice of God as well as call down the fire. And eventually, at the end of a rather long and stormy career, the Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge goes on to say, he's carried up to heaven on a chariot of fire .

Furthermore the tradition, our Australian Archbishop and Scripture Scholar adds, is that this first great Prophet never died and would one day return...

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